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EVIDENCES OF A FUTURE LIFE. 
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" If a man die shall he live again ? " 
This is an old inquiry. It comes into modern 
thought in this form from the oldest book in the 
Bible, one probably older than the Jewish race, com- 
ing to them from the Arabic. And the inquiry now, 
a/then, is like a sharpened sword, dividing the 
thinking portion of society into two divisions: those 
who assert and those who deny, a life beyond the 

grave. 

It is only when the reflective powers of man have de- 
veloped and not until he has crushed down his natur- 
al intuitions, that he asks this question. Not till he 
has lost the evidence of that life, can doubt arise 
and give birth to the question: "Shall I live after 
death ?" That there is no such doubt or questioning 
in the mind of savage or undeveloped man is evi- 
dence to us that he knows of that life. Prof. 
Huxley tells us that the belief in ghosts is universal 
among savage tribes, that though there are tribes so 
undeveloped intellectually that they have no word 
that can be translated " God " or " Deity," they in- 
variably have words for ghosts or returning dead. 

They do not question the fact of a life beyond the 
grave any more than they do of fair weather after a 
stoim, but are as equally ignorant of the philosophy 
of each. 

Through interrogation man learns. The eternal 
"Why?" "How?" and "What?" have been the 
triune path to knowledge. The moment a man asks 



a question, he pusses the boundary line between brute 
and man. Unquestioning, lie has been like the brute, 
the unconscious and ignorant servant of law ; by 
questioning he has begun to be the conscious and 
intelligent servant of law. 

The moment he asks himself this question 
concerning a future life, he is destined to become, if 
he continues thinking, either an Agnostic or a Spirit, 
ualist. If he answers the question from knowledge, 
" Yes'', he is a Spiritualist. If he answers, " I don't 
know", because he can find no proof, he is an Agnos- 
tic. If he dare deny, he is a Materialist. And thus 
the moment the first man asked this question both 
Spiritualism and Agnosticism were born. They are 
the balance of each other. Spiritualism is thus as old 
as man and is the positive pole of knowledge, and 
Agnosticism, the negative one of ignorance. I dp 
not say Agnostics are ignorant, but I do emphatically 
say that the essence of Agnosticism is ignorance 
of the life beyond- the grave. Ignorance on this 
point, however much it may seem a paradox, is the 
result of the general intelligence of the non-believer. 
As a class they average as high in intelligence and 
morality as any other class of people, but the fact of 
their being Agnostics, arises from the lack of knowl- 
edge on this point— i. e., thair want of evidence of 
future life. Spiritualism asserts positively that 
future life — i.e., because it has evidence. The two ar e 
as necessary to each other as heat and cold, odd and 
even, or any other of the biune facts of existence. 
Materialism asserting non-existence, asserts what is 
incapable of proof and hence is as dogmatic as 
theology and is only after all a belief. 



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All faith, hope and belief in every religious system 
is aftei all based on the knowledge possessed or 
supposed to have been possessed by their founders. 
For instance the Christian belief rests upon the testi- 
mony of those who saw Jesus. " Now is Christ risen 
from the dead," says Paul. The Mohammedans rest 
their hope on what Mohammed saw. " We testify 
what we have seen, " say the founders of religious 
systems, and centnries after, belief, faith and hope, 
flourish in the soil of the real or supposed knowledge 
of the early prophets of that religion. Hence the 
theological field occupied by these systems is that of 
belief alone. Spiritualism, however, deals in knowl- 
edge, and Materialism and Agnosticism, in ignorance. 
Christians believe ; Spiritualists know. Agnostics 
affirm their ignorance and Materialists deny. Science 
is of necessity to-day materialistic, thus making great 
inroads into the old realm of belief, and by causing 
doubts in the minds of the votaries of the old, has 
greatly recruited the ranks of Agnosticism. But 
Spiritualism, bringing its positive proofs, and these 
proofs being in the line of human love and hope, is 
still faster dividing the cohorts of belief by compel- 
ling each one to examine his or her evidences of 
immortality, and as Christian theology has no evidence 
that can stand the test of reason or scientific crit- 
icism, the ranks of Agnosticism are faster recruited 
than ever before, consequent upon the rapid increase 
of Spiritualism ; and as general intelligence increases, 
the ranks of each must be recruited till belief has not 
a soldier and there are but two classes in the world* 
Spiritualists who know, and Agnostics who don't 



know there is a future life for man. As fast however, 
as proofs come to the "don't knows," they will re- 
cruit our ranks. Thus as Spiritualists, we should 
remember that we owe it to those whose belief we 
unsettle, and whom by rational reaction we drive from 
dogmatic theologic assertion into doubt or negation, 
that we do our duty still further, and present as fast 
as possible to them such evidence as shall convince 
them of the fact of a future life. And while 
we encourage Materialists and Agnostics as worthy 
co-workers against theologic and dogmatic authority, 
we should never forget that they are still our antag- 
onists here from lack of development, and should 
seek to develop in them, this knowledge by improv- 
ing the conditions around them for growth. 

Spiritualism has, therefore, by its evidences and the 
doubt raised in the minds of believers, been necessa- 
rily a disintegrating force to old organizations, cen- 
trifugal power being most prominent. But the field 
once cleared of error, it will through the centripetal, 
cohesive power of love, weld all who are equally de- 
veloped, into harmonious bodies for common work for 
common weal, and I believe we are now entering that 
era of crystallization. The first great work of Spirit- 
ualism then is to present to the world the evidences 
of a future life. To do this it must give that which 
is satisfactory to all natures, and I am sure that when 
men learn to rightly weigh evidence, all that is need- 
ed is to be found in modern spiritualist phenomena, 
and when they become sufficiently intuitive, enough 
will be found in each individual life. To-day the 
masses are not, because of prejudice and a false edu- 



cation, a competent jury. Negative evidence, that 
would be refused in court, outweighs positive evidence. 
Tiiree witnesses testified that they saw Pat steal the 
boots, and he said when about to be sentenced ; " An 
slnu-e yer honor will not commit me when only three 
saw me steal, for I can bring many more who didn't 
see me." Those who have seen and heard in this 
universal court, i. e., the Spiritualists themselves, are 
too often set aside for those who have neither seen 
nor heard, and public opinion is formed from their 
negations. 

The only witnesses that can testify are those who 
know, and all the evidence possible, is to the fact of 
the existence of a man after death. The testimony 
of one who don't know is the testimony of a home- 
staying Spaniard in 1492, against that of the discov- 
erer of a New World, who testified to the fact. 

Scorn and the negative evidence of ignorance, 
with persecution and death, did not weigh with 
coming generations against Bruno's, Galileo's and 
Guttenburg's knowledge. Ignorance like this is the 
only witness against Spiritualism. 

Again, the long disuse of any member of the body, 
renders it incapable of use, and only by a system of 
movement cure, which by will power compels the 
vital forces thither, can it be restored to usefulness. 
In like manner does the mind suffer in the disuse of 
any faculty. Under the sway of theology, man's 
reasoning on the religious questions has been in a 
circle and especially has he been interdicted from 
reasoning upon his premises and upon the evidences 
of another life. Not long enough has his mind been 
making efforts in that direction for the masses to cor- 
rectly weigh or appreciate the evidences we have. 



The discussions forced upon the world, by spiritu- 
alist phenomena and oftentimes as much by fraud- 
ulent as by genuine manifestations, are a necessary 
school of discipline, and by-and-by, reason will not 
be so antagonistic to intuition as it is to-day. 

In discussing the evidences of a future life they 
may be divided into the intuitional, the rational and 
the sensuous or physical. 

The intuitional evidence is the highest man can 
have, and but a comparatively small number are suf- 
ficiently developed to possess this. It is of no value 
save to its possessors, and to them it is above all 
price. They know there is a future life, though they 
have not an argument with which to meet you, and 
sit silently under them, still despite all the world 
may say" foolishly, fanatically and insanely," in the 
opinion of those less fortunate than themselves* 
they cling to their interior evidence, and living peace- 
fully, at last in blissful assurance of a reunion be- 
yond, pass through the dark valley triumphantly. 

These are the poets, religious enthusiasts, the fa- 
natics and hungry-hearted of the world, the misun- 
derstood and sensitive ones who, blessed above all 
others, are often found in the lowliest places, where 
they sing songs that awaken the noblest aspirations 
in us and where they work deeds as kind, and live 
lives as holy as his of Galilee. No great souls ever 
held to Materialism. They had the inspiration of an 
immortal hope. " To pronounce the word man, is to 
say immortality," says Emerson. Did you ever 
realize that Materialism has no poet, and I assert that 
it never can have one. It may have rhymsters and 
didactic philosophers who write in metre, but a 



Homer, or a Shakespeare, a Schiller or a Walt Whit- 
man could never come from that tomb of negation. 
" h\ Memoriam " and " To Mary in Heaven, " look 
beyond the grave. The poet is the true prophet, 
inspirational and intuitional. He listens nearer to 
the spirit-world than the rest of earth's children. and 
catches the coming thoughts which later are trans- 
lated by others into sober prose. 

That evidence which appeals to reason comes 
next in value. Many are inclined to call her our 
highest tribunal. Extol reason as high as you may, 
and I will endorse all you say, still I must reply with 
Tennyson ; — 

' ' Let her know her place 
She is second, not the first, 

A higher hand must make her mild, 
If all be not in vain, and guide 

Her footsteps moving side by side 
With wisdom like a younger child, 
For she is earthy, of the mind, 
But wisdom heavenly, of the soul. " 

Nevertheless he who has evidence that satisfies his 
reason, should ask for none that appeals to his senses* 
. e. , evidence upon the physical plane. Make future 
life seem rational and no more should be asked. 

When a person says to me, " The arguments are all 
r ea>onable, but I want to see something before I ac- 
cept the doctrines ! " he then convinces me that 
either my arguments are not to him reasonable, or 
that he is not willing to be led, as he claims, by his 
reason, and that he yet stands upon the lower plane 
of development that of the senses and needs evi- 
dences upon that plane For as remarked above, 
the masses are not sufficiently long emancipated 



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from 1 1; :ol.>gioal piii'LiIvaio to get along without phys- 
ical phenomena. Heuce we must supply them with 
these, and the demand will keep up the supply ; 
though you or I may not need physical manifestations, 
far be it from me to discourage them, for until men 
are educated off the plane of the physical, they will 
need even the crudest evidence the Spirit-world can 
give them through physical phenomena. But J do 
unhesitatingly condemn the use made of the seance 
by many Spiritualists as a mere means of gratifying 
curiosity. I would condemn the degradation of the 
seance to the level of the show room, and the medium 
as the equal only of the stage performer. Let us 
consider seances for physical phenomena as the kin- 
dergarten of Spiritualism, and not as is too often the 
case, regard them as the acme of the cause. What- 
ever the character of the manifestations, let the 
seance be ever a sacred place ; like the sacramental 
table of the church, let it be a place of hallowed 
communion and approached with a preparation of 
mind and with reverence and love. Gerald Massey 
gives us wise directions when he says ; 

" Come with cleanest carriage 
Whitely pure be dressed ; 
For this heavenly marriage 
Earth should wear her best. " 
Now, briefly, I will offer the evidence I have upon 
these planes, without seeking to carry the analysis so 
far or to draw the lines of demarcation so close, that 
it becomes tedious. As my first witness on the in- 
tuional plane I call to love. I can not con- 
ceive of a love that terminates at the grave. It 



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reaches beyoud, and by that law of nature through 
which thirst is gratified, so must the love nature find 
its demand met beyond the grave. In the tragedy or' 
Ion occurs this passage, the reply of a young man 
about to die, in answer to the question of his loved 
one, "Shall we meet again?" fc * I have asked that 
dreadful question of the hills that look eternal, of the 
clear streams that flow on forever, of the stars among 
whose fields of azure my raised spirit hath walked in 
glory. All were dumb ! But when I gaze upon thy 
living face, I feel that there is something in the love 
that mantles through its beauty, that cannot wholly 
perish: We shall meet again, Clemanthe." 

An old and prominent Materialist once said in my 
presence, as he spoke of his wife long since passed to 
spirit-life, " If I could only know she was alive, and 
I should meet her, " and as the tears rolled down his 
cheeks, I said ' Those tears are an argument that 
confutes all your reasoning and by the fact you love 
her yet, I know she lives to be loved." As the 
needle would not point to the North were the pole 
destroyed, for the attraction would then cease, so 
did she not exist, the spiritual attraction would cease 
and there would be no love in the heart of the one 
that remained, for the destruction of his object of love 
would have destroyed in man the power to love. 

The intellect may hold to annihilation, but I can- 
not conceive it possible for one to stand by the cof- 
fined form of mother, wife, child, lover or friend, 
and not in soul cry for a reunion. Soul is not satis- 
fied, and the desire which in defiance of the intellect 
will thus assert itself, is to me the highest intuitive 
evidence of the life bevond. 



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" Tell me uoi those we cherished 

In the happy years of yore, 
Who have faded a like the flow'rets. 
Sleep in death, to wake no more. 
O, I cannot think them broken, 
All the ties that were so fond. 
For my heart e'en whispers softly, 
Hope beyond, there's hope beyond !" 

Never grave so deep as to bury this hope nor one 
so wide that love did not bridge it and speed over it to 
meet its own. "Love alone is immortal:" says 
Ingersoll, and he thus testifies to that life where love 
survives the shock of death. 

Aspiration belongs to the same class of evidence 
as love. It is soul-hunger for more of " the good, the 
beautiful and the true," and because it is, the where- 
with to gratify it must be. Never a demand with- 
out a supply, though in our ignorance we may be 
long in finding it. That " haunting dream of better 
forever at our side," our beautiful ideal, leads us 
through life, dropping upon us daily some of her own 
beautiful raiment, but only to become more radiant 
herself, and when she has led us to the grave, she is 
yet the unattained, and our desire for her is as in- 
tense as ever. She passes on, and must we remain 
behind? Oh! no; still following that angel of our 
better life, we shall pass through " The covered way 
that leads into the light,*' and still day by day unfold 
the God in us. 

"E'en through our paltry stir and strife 
Glows down the wished ideal, 
And longing mold in clay, what life 
Carves in the marble real; " 

and life, the sculptor, is eternal life, ever carving 

upon the marble of the spirit the design of the angel 



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of aspiration ! O, had I no other proofs of immortality 

than love and aspiration, calmly would I float down 
the stream of earth-life, sure that the veil ahead 
would by and by, rise upon a fairer stream, where 
love would again clasp heart to heart its own, and 
aspiration ever beckon onward to grander endeavors. 

But Life itself shall be my witness to the necessity 
of a life beyond the grave. 

If there is none, then Ingersoll's indictment of Na- 
ture is just, when he likens her to loading a passen- 
ger train and running it to destruction continually 
with its freight. Life's plans, hopes, aspirations, are 
all cheats, ay ! worse than lies, if there is no life be- 
yond the grave. As a pier on Manhattan isle compels 
the pier on the opposite shore of Hudson river to be, 
so Earth compels Heaven to be, that life may swing- 
its bridge over the River of Death. Wisely and 
beautifully does that profound thinker, Henry 
George say in the last page almost of his " Progress 
and Poverty," — " What then is the meaning of life 
— of life absolutely and inevitably bounded by death ? 
To me it only seems intelligible as the avenue and 
vestibule to another life." So Life, beautiful life, 
means Eternal life. Not only does Philosophy point 
to the Future for the solution of Life's problems, but 
all science is tending that way. Persistency of force 
says " Life forever," and evolution says " Life is an 
eternal progress ! " It means upward forever ! 

Before man, brute was ; after man, something higher 
must be. Limit the law and you have a primal and a fi- 
nal result, and hence have creative power. Thus you 
destro}' all law and all science, and live in the midst 
of miracles. There can be neither Alpha nor Omc- 



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ga to the alphabet of nature. Science, materialistic, 
says every where, "Evolution/' Science, spiritualis- 
tic, says, " Progression;" this meeting of these two, 
upon the same plane for the lirst time in history is 
the prophecy of a grand accelerated progress for 
man in the near future. For between them, all an- 
tagonism now shall cease. Science also tells me 
nothing is destroyed; developed matter even never 
loses its development. Energy can never be de- 
stroyed, and energy developed into memory, love, 
will, and the thousand faculties that make up the 
human, can never lose that development, and where 
these are, man must be, for -these make him. The true 
deduction from these positions of science is, since life 
is one continuous line of existence, there is a link 
above man, and we call that link the angel. And 
thus it goes on forever. Says, Festus ; 

— "On said God unto the soul 

As to the earth 'Forever.' On it goes 

A rejoicing nature of the infinite." 

I would next present to you the testimony of 
the savasfe man. There is a universal belief in 
ghosts by the undeveloped man. This fact is strong 
evidence of the fact of ghosts. Whence come these 
ideas to him? All man's ideas are obtained from nat- 
ural phenomena. Intuitively they may come to him, 
but if they do they take form and color from experi- 
ence, and experience is born of natural phenomena. 
However great a man may be, he cannot create. He 
can only find what is. He finds, but does not 
originate thoughts. It took a divine Shakespeare to 
re-tell old tales to coming generations. How much 
greater than Shakespeare must he be, who would ob. 



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tain a thought that is not. Thoughts, like light are 
resultants of eternal energy, and as the constituents 
of the rose enable it to absorb all rays but the red 
ones, and reflect these, so do the constituents of 
the brain enable it to receive or reflect thought. 

Invention is only the re-arranging of things that 
are. It takes a great development to invent a bow or 
spear. Can you conceive of the development it 
would take to create an idea of that which is not? 
What a development his was who created the idea of 
ghosts, if ghosts are not. " Truth is stranger than fic- 
tion, " because truth ever sits as the model for fiction, 
and she is natural while fiction is artificial. Now sav- 
age tribes who universally have tales of ghosts, must 
have had some natural phenomenon from which to 
have obtained the idea. What can it be ? Herbert 
Spencer thinks it originated from dreams, but it seems 
to me that to derive ghosts from dreams, would be a 
greater feat for the infantile savage brain than is any 
of our modern discoveries to the developed brains of 
to-day. There is no need of such a far-fetched hypoth- 
esis when a simpler one will answer better. Realizing 
that the child whether developed to manhood's phys- 
ical like the savage, or in our arms, reflects in his 
thought his surroundings ; that, " Children and fools 
tell the truth," because they do not know enough to 
lie, are not sufficiently developed intellectually to in- 
vent, can we not easily understand how ghosts 
have become realities to them, only by contact? 

It seems to me that these tales, traditions, religious 
rites, and whatever relates to ghosts in savage climes, 
can have only one origin, an origin identical with that 
of the Christian's hope. Some one must have seen a re- 



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turning dead man. This natural phenomenon, occur- 
ring once to one man, may form the basis for all these 
to rest on, but if no dead had ever returned, then no 
tale^ had ever been invented concerning them. 

The Feejee Islander, who buried his parents alive 
before they became decrepid, that they might have 
serviceable bodies in the spirit-world, could not have 
originated that idea. It must have been the result of 
seeing some one from that world in a perfect body, 
hence his conclusion that if buried old, they would be 
resurrected old. Said the old Indian chief at Fort 
Fetterman a few years ago, as he sat by the body of 
his son: " This is not my son ; it is only the teepee 
in which he lived. He has gone to the happy hunting 
ground!" "A sublime faith,"- the world says, but I 
would say, a glorious knowledge taught him by den- 
zens of that same happy ground. In some tribes not 
till by long fasting, alone in the wood, he has seen one 
of his ancestors, and from him taken his totem, does 
the boy become a brave, and the great change takes 
place in presence of that apparition. While I might 
doubt the tales of soothsayer, adept, prophet and ma- 
gician, while I might find exception to the tale of 
priest and historian, I cannot doubt the tales of these 
intuitive children of nature, any more than I could 
the evidence of the artless child in court, or that of 
the young Pawnee brought before the Quaker Com- 
mission, of whom the old chief, his father said, when 
they were about to administer the oath : " He no 
lie ; he never see pale face before ! " 

Next, let me present the little children to you. I 
have many tales of their seeing spirits and playing 
with unseen playmates, and have one in my own 



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household. I will narrate one told me by a lady in 
whose integrity I have perfect confidence. Her lit- 
tle daughter has «an unseen playmate, Lily, with 
whom she plays as freely and enjoyably as though 
she was in the form, but she complains occasionally 
to her mother that Lily don't play fairly, for while 
she has to go round by the doors into the parlor, Lily 
goes through the wall. Had she never seen her go 
through a wall, could she have told the story ? 

While in Philadelphia not long ago, a gentleman 
told me that his little son, aged nine years, who had 
passed to spirit-life last Fall, told his mother one day 
during his sickness, that he would not live over three 
weeks. Of this he was warned by spirit friends, and 
he would probably go sooner. He passed away on 
the eighteenth day after. His little sister often sees 
him now, and on a recent occasion said; " George is 
here," and her face beamed with delight. Suddenly 
it changed to sadness, and she cried : " O, a man is 
taking him away ! '' Then she smiled and said, " He 
is coming back to bid us Good-by ! " Use this as 
you may, I accept the evidence as conclusive that 
George was there, and if he lives, we all shall. 

Tlien we have these incidents of the dying, to 
whom, visions of loved ones have been given. They 
are common and I need not narrate them. But 
here is one which so forcibly testifies for us that T 
must tell it. It was told me by a physician, who had 
it from a brother physician, whom it convinced of 
immortality. He was a Materialist. He had a lit- 
tle girl patient of about four years of age. She was 
sick unto death with small pox. Weak, so she 



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could scarcely raise her hand, she lay upon her couch 
and they were looking for her to go. Suddenly such 
a smile overspread her face," said the narrator " as I 
never saw before nor since. It seemed as if she had 
already realized Heaven. , Then suddenly she raised 
herself in the bed with such a look of joyful recogni- 
tion, stretched out her hands and cried ; Papa ! ' 
Since then I have never doubted she saw her father 
in spirit life." Blessed the ministry of such deaths. 

The dying are often clairvoyant and I am not dis- 
posed to doubt the evidence of those so near the 
other life, that they see and converse with those al- 
ready there ; neither are our friends in the church 
so disposed to doubt, and many a tear has been dried 
by facts like this, when theology failed to do it. In 
Fort Dodge, Iowa, a Presbyterian minister in a fune- 
ral discourse told of a little boy who saw before he 
died, his cousin come in at the door and he conversed 
with him, and the minister said, " I believe he saw 
his cousin.*' 

I have properly left till the last, the ordinary phe- 
nomena of Spiritualism as the positive evidence on 
the rational, and particularly on the physical plane. I 

Clairvoyance — clear seeing — has ever been one of 
the chief phenomena of Spiritualism, and to those 
who have not lost all faith in the truthfulness of hu- ; 
man nature, its evidences should be conclusive of a 
life beyond. Seers have been developed in every age 
and nation, and modern Spiritualism owes to seer- 
ship much of its remarkable progress, and a large 
proportion of its most valuable philosophy. 

Instances of clairvoyant sight are not rare. We 
have the prophets of the Old Testament, and Jesus, 



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John, Paul, Peter, James and Stephen, all clairvoy- 
ants in the New. The record of the Seeress of Pre vorst 
and the tales of nearly every fireside, substantiate the 
truth of clairvoyants in modern times. I will give 
two instances, and neither of the persons who saw the 
spirits were Spiritualists ; and every Spiritualist can 
readily give authentic tales of similar import. 

A lady in a town in Iowa where I lectured, after a 
long persuasion by her friends, joined the church, 
havimg previously declared she would not. When 
asked her reason, she replied that for three nights her 
mother's spirit came to her and urged her to do so, 
and though she would not accept Spiritualism, she 
was positive she saw her mother and talked with her, 
and it was evidently as real to her as the visit of her 
mortal friends. A gentleman in that same town 
who had been a hard drinker, and resisted all appeals 
for reformation, suddenly joined the Reform Club of 
that village, and told them that he had promised his 
mothers spirit not to drink any more and to join the 
club and the church. She came to him several nights 
and plead with him, and at last he did as she request- 
ed. 

But any one familiar with the phenomena of Spirit- 
ualism knows that such scenes are common,-I speak 
as an expert ; I have examined both sides and from 
thirteen years experience have a right to assert this; 
— these phenomena are paralleled and duplicated con- 
stantly in presence of our seers and mediums, and 
they are the surest proofs we have of spirit identity. 

Claraudience — clear hearing — has been an accom- 
paniment of clairvoyance, and the voice that came to 
Moses from between the Cherubim in the holy of 



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holies, to the priest at bis oracle, to the Quaker as the 
" inner voice," to the medicine man in his dance, is a 
voice from out that spirit world that " lies around us 
like a cloud," and is like clairvoyance, convincing 
proof to those who possess these gifts, and also to 
those who have yet faith in the honesty of man. 

Many are the messages brought to us by our psy- 
chics, who hear these voices and repeat them to us. 

Lost, in a wood one day while waiting for a train 
at a junction, and anxious lest I should wander about 
and miss it, and consequently my appointment, in the 
midst of my anxiety I heard a voice say : "This way, 
papa Henry ! " It was the voice of a little spirit-girl, 
and three times she called to me, and led me out in 
time to reach the station for the train. 

But still this fact remains, that it is the phenom- 
ena of mediumship that furnishes the evidence that 
will save the world. from Materialism. Most of the 
above, valuable to the sensitive and the reasoner, is 
like water on a duck's back to the average man who 
must himself see, hear and feel before he will believe. 

Thus to the great mass of humanity, evidence must 
come through manifestations. These have accumula- 
ted during the last thirty years, so that were society 
fully emancipated from those hereditary conditions 
and that prejudice, which prevent a complete use of 
the reasoning faculties, very few would question the 
fact of a future existence. The range of the evi- 
dence thus obtained, extends from a little rap to that 
of a full form materialization, and from the simple 
quickening of the intellect to that of complete en- 
trancement. Appealing to every one of the five sen- 
ses comes the evidence to prove that "angels are hov- 



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ering near;" and whoever will examine honestly will 
know that immortality is no dream. But those who 
think more of their own pet theory than they do of 
truth, and who, to keep that theory from harm, shut 
their eyes to every thing which will not sustain it, 
will still cry, h It is all a humbug and a delusion." 

Witnesses, whose characters are unimpeachable, 
live by hundreds in every city and testify to their oc- 
currence. They will tell you of undoubted commu- 
nication through the entranced, through the hand of 
the medium by writing or by drawing, by the answer- 
ing of sealed letters and the moving of ponderable 
bodies, through writing upon slate , by spirits with 
and without a pencil, upon paper in locked drawers ; 
they will tell of conversing with friends seen at cab- 
inet doors and windows, and in seances with many a 
medium. They will tell you of Foster, Slade, Conant, 
Andrews, Phillips, Mansfield, and many more medi- 
ums where these things are of daily occurrence, and by 
visiting mediums yourselves, each one may be able to 
say with Thomas, u I believe for I have seen the 
nail-print and spear-wound." 

I can only refer you to our literature and recom- 
mend you to read the works of Professors Zcellner, 
Wallace, Crookes, Hare, and those of Sargeant, Pee- 
bles, Watson, Bowles; Faraday, and others, in which 
you will find sufficiently well attested phenomena to 
convince you, if you can be and are willing to be 
convinced, by the evidence of competent witnesses, 
that the so-called dead do live and communicate with 
us. 

To the bereaved, lovingly seeking to know if 
their dead yet live, a single rap, unexplained by any 



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other hypothesis than that of spirit power, outweighs 
all the pompous theories of the M. D.'s, and a mes- 
sage, though spelled out by table-tipping, is worth all 
so-called revelation, and the voice of a loved one in 
the dark circle, or from the materialized form in the 
cabinet, is more valuable than all the consolations of 
the church; and in the presence of these manifesta- 
tions, love recognizing love, flies from the cold nega- 
tions of Materialism to the positive assertion: "We 
know, for we have seen, heard and felt our loved re- 
turn from the grave." 

And mediums, co-workers, this is your mission; to 
make rainbows in the tears of grief; to lay your hand 
upon the harp of life and still its cords of grief and 
sorrow: to restore wasted hopes to life; to reknit 
broken ties and to refill the vacant chair with the 
loved and supposed lost one. O ! how glorious the 
picture, as these rainbows that sparkle in tears, illu- 
mine your sky ! How sweet the music, these sobs 
changed to singing ! 

Nature everywhere supplies the needs of her child- 
ren, and the demands of all classes are met in these 
manifestations. To many of us there are things that 
are puerile in the seance, and circles ofttimes disgust 
us. But even so is it in the varied companies of 
mortals in which we mingle. But these puerile man- 
ifestations are the needed food to many, and the cir- 
cles I have left in disgust, have caused tears to flow 
from the eyes of others. I have learned this valuable 
lesson, to try and put mj^self in the places of others 
before I judge t"heir needs, and 1 try to realize that 
each must be convinced upon his or her own plane 
and that there are wise spirit- bands who v«ill thus 
meet each; and since manifes tations are tnus granted 



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we should each seek those that meet our wants, leav- 
ing others to do likewise; and not till all are philoso- 
phers can only deep philosophy be spoken through 
entranced lips. While this gradation of phenomena 
exists, all who honestly seek shall find. "Lo, at this 
tableall are fed;" and whenever I am inclined to con- 
demn, I ever remember the poor widow in the seance, 
whose son, Tommy had died but a little while before. 

Tommy came and spelled his name by raps, and 
the over-joyed mother seized the table in her 
arms, and weeping over it tears of joy, went home 
happy. You may smile, but there were only tears in 
the circle. If I am inclined to smile at this manifesta- 
tion of mother-love, I am stopped by the remembrance 
of a sainted mother, who clasped to her bosom the 
instrument, the looked for letter, that bore from the 
camp, march, battle or hospital, news of her boy in 
blue, and I see the beauty of the love that kissed the 
table which brought the message from the boy in 
the Summer-land. 

Ah, how does love ever drive all cold negations 
away when once we have the proof of the return of 
the loved one. I have seen the hard man of 
business bow in tears as his wife returned and spoke 
to him words of comfort through some entranced 
medium, the judge sit with radiant face as he 
communed with his child at the cabinet; and whole 
audiences listen spell-bound, to the musical flow 
of words and th-3 magnetic spell of the trance 
speaker. To each and all of these have evidences 
come that there is no death, and why question the 
method? The great point is to get this truth — "If a 



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man dies, he lives again," — and any source whence 
it comes, is sacred. However humble the instrument, 
the message makes it for the time being, divine. 

This is the message of modern Spiritualism, "Man, 
thou shalt never die," 

"For Death is but another name for change, 

The weary shuffle off tiieir mortal coil, 

And think to slumber in eternal night. 

But lo ! the man though dead, is living still; 

Unclothed, is clothed upon, and his mortality 

Is swallowed up of Life." 
And thus — 

"Death with solving rite, 
Pours finite into infinite. 
It is the mission of Spiritualism through its 
phenomena and philosophy, to bear this message to 
those in the darkness of sorrow and the blindness of 
grief ! To hear the cry of the hungry-hearted, aud 
bring to each the answer needed! Glorious nineteenth 
century! wondrous in its achievements in science, arts 
and mechanics; wondrous in its diplomacy, that is 
saving bloodshed through arbitration among the na- 
tions; glorious in all that tends to the elevation of 
man. Among its gifts the first and best, is angel 
communion. It is the incomparable gem in the crown 
of evidences of a future life. Before its brightness 
bows the intellect of man. It is alread}^ illumining the 
halls of science and the study of philosophy. Already 
are the great, as measured by earth's standard, 
borrowing its radiance to brighten their path. 

As it dispels the darkness of doubt the soul leaps 
to newer life, and with redoubled vigor, man pursues 
his aspirations upward, onward, sunward. Those, 
who, walking with bleeding hearts in the shadows 



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ck a creat bereavement, with the soul-fibres all keen- 
ly sensitive from the shock of separation, step out 
into the glorious radiance of this reflected light of 
heaven, find the intellect dumb, but love knows its 
own. Severed ties are reknit and broken hopes re- 
stored. The path to heaven glows with angel steps, 
and beckoning hands point to a higher and better 
life, and death is transformed into a second and a 
grander birth. Ah! now because of this gift of me- 
diums!] ip, we know beyond all doubt that there is re- 
union in that beautiful life beyond, and we can real- 
ize as a practical, daily, glorious fact that — 
"All the boundless universe is life; 
There are no dead !" 
On the shores of hills immortal, 

Just beyond Death's rushing river, 
When we've passed the grave's dark portal, 

We shall meet to sunder never. 
Loved ones will come in garments white, 

Wai ting in heaven's refulgent light, 
To welcome us where is no night, 

And we no more shall sever. 
They're watching from some heavenly hill, 

Waiting till Life's mission we fulfil, 
Then in our good Father's will, 

Love binds us forever. 
Ah! this we know! O Father, thanks, 

That Thou hast heard our earnest prayer, 
And taught us life is everywhere 
And love and life e'e nal; 
That when we drop these mortal frames, 
Thou wilt give us angel names 
And love in fields supernal. 
Ay, this we know, for we have seen 
Those fields beyond, i i living green, 
Through clouds by angels, rifted ; 

And oft they come in shining bands, 
Dear spirit-friends from Summer lands, 
And all our doubts are lifted. 



No. 6. 

OBSESSION, 

OB 

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. 



A PAPER, GIVEN IN THE INTEREST OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE 

BY 
PROFESSOR M. FARADAY. 

Late Electrician and Chemist of the Royal Institution, London, Eng. 

Contents. — How intensely the spirit realm impinges upon the mortal 
realm. Why do criminals in spirit life desire to perpetuate their crimi- 
nality through mortals ? The principle of obsession is expressed in 
the involuntary transmission of the will-power and disposition of those 
in spirit life, who never have been developed above the savage plane. 

The last great struggle between France and Germany, was incited by 
those who had perished in the wars fought in previous centuries, between 
those nations . Superstitious spirits are great obstacles to a correct un- 
derstanding of the Spiritual Philosophy. Obsession among Christians 
and other religious devotees . Political obsession. The cause of delu- 
sions. The cure of obsession. The beginning and end of responsibility 
from a spiritual stand-point. How the involuntary action of the will of 
the spirit, affects the recipient of earth through the electrical force. 

How the will-power of persons friendly to spiritual truth sometimes is 
made instrumental for trouble by spirit enemies of truth. 



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SAMUEL BOWLES, 

Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 

IN THE 

First Five Spheres. 

ALSO 

A Thrilling Account of the late President 

Garfield's Reception in the 

Spirit World. 



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CONTEXTS. 



SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL BOWLES, SKETCH OF 
THE LIFE OF THE MEDIUM. 

Gen. Garfield's Death as seen by the Spirit Side. — Theodore 
Parker Discoursing on how to get Light into the Churches 
of Earth. — The Minister who Seduced A Member of his 
Flock. — Good and Bad Ministers, Lawyers, Doctors and 
Grocers, how Received in the Spirit World. — Rev. W. T. ! 
Eustis of Springfield, Mass., Criticised for Misrepresent- I 
ing Spirit Communion. — The Danger of too much Money 
Getting. — The Entrance to Spirit Life of Dr. David P. 
Smith of Springfield, Mass., Mr. Bowles' Physician. — The 
Dreadful Effects of Opiates and Stimulants on the Spirit 
after Death. — E. V. Wilson, Fanny Conant, Achsa W. 
Sprague, Luther Colby. — The Terrible Fate of the Father 
and Mother who consent to Infanticide, and the Worse 
Fate of the Abortionist. — A Springfield Abortionist De- 
scribed. — The Vastness of the Spirit World. — The Chinese 
and Negro Heavens. — Hospitals for Sick Souls in the First 
Sphere. — The Treatment of the Insane in Spirit Life. — Pub- 
lic Reception of President Garfield in Spirit Life. — Wash- 
ington. — Lincoln. — Henry Clay. — Lord Beaconsfield.— The 
Hell of the Rum-seller. — Form Materialization and Inde- 
pendent Slate Writing Explained. — Mr. Bowles gives J. G. 
Holland a Cordial Reception. 

PAPER NINTH. 

Each Spirit's Individual Interest in his own Family Retained. 
— The Vastness of the Spirit World. — It Encloses the 
Earth like an Egg Shell — The Chinese Heaven. — The 
Negro Heaven. — A Negro Spirit is not White. — The Spirits 
over Palestine. — Their Ignorance of Bible Scenes En- 
acted in their Land. 

the first and second spheres. 

The Opera. — Parepa. — Lilian Adelaide Neilson and others 

AT ONE OF THE GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVALS. — MRS. NeILSON'S 

Praise of Music. — The Child and the Picture of the Sing- 
ing Brook. — Brotherly Love Universal. — Charles Sumner. 
— W. H. Seward. — They Fear for the Nation. — Mrs. Neil- 
son Explains how she is Sjnging in Heaven. — How thick is 
the Third Sphere? — The Apertures through the Spheres 



Explained. — Spirits live on the Upper Side of the Spheres. 
— Rain in the Spheres. — Immortality of Vertebrate Ani- 
| mals. — Mr. Bowles visits the Lapland Heaven. 

THE THIRD SPHERE. 

I^The Heavens of the Chinese, Africans and those over the 
Holy Land. — Heaven's " Toll Gates." — What most Intelli- 
gent Spirits Worship in the Third Sphere. — Jesus of Naza- 

I reth. — The Nature of God. 

the fourth sphere. 
The Scenery. — Animal Life. — Earth Marriages Sometimes Con- 

I TINUED IN THE SPHERES. An INTERVIEW WITH MlCHAEL FARA- 

[ day. — He Invites Mr. Bowles to his Home. — He Re-states his 
Earthly Opinions on Spiritualism, and Informs Mr. Bowles 
how he Proposes to Produce Scientific Evidences of Spirit 
Return. — Mr. Bowles is Telegraphed to go to his. Risen 
Brother, Dr. J. G. Holland. 

PAPER TWELFTH. 
How Souls Sick from Opium Eating, Rum Drinking and Sexual 
Prostitution are Received into Their Spirit Homes after 
having been Cured at the Hospitals for Sick Souls. 

PAPER SIXTEENTH. 
Miscellaneous Questions Answered. — Moody and Pentecost 
Revivals. — Murphy Tempi. zance Meetings. — Free Love De- 
nounced. — True Marriage Approved. — Mr. Bowles' Method 
of Controlling this Medium. — Gospel Temperance Reform- 
ers. — The Miser in Heaven. — Journalists who Lie about 
Spiritualism. — The Bad Effect of Wearing Crape for 
Mourning. — How Col. Robert G. Ingersoll and Henry Ward 
Beecher would be Received were they to Pass to Spirit 
Life Now. — The Musical Mediumship of C. P. Longley of 
Springfield, Mass., Explained. — No Children Born In Spirit 
Life. — The Spiritual Congress for the United States. — 
What Happens During Sleep. — How Spirits Copy our Books. 
— Shakespeare's Works in Heaven. — How Spirit Printing 
is Done. — Spirit Telegraph and Telephone. — How Houses 
are Built in Heaven. 

DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIUMS. 
Further Instructions in addition to the Paper on Medium- 
ship in Experiences of Samuel Bowles in Spirit Life. 

PAPER SEVENTEENTH. 

The Reception of Two Suicides in Heaven, Who went over 
Niagara Falls. 



PAPER EIGHTEENTH. 
How People must kid Themselves of Faults before they 
can Enter the Second Sphere. — Some Good Spirits Stay 
in the First Sphere for a Time to be near their Friends, 
and to Study its Lessons. — Journalists and Papers. — Art 
Galleries, Reading Rooms. — What Spirit Atmosphere is 
composed of. — The Substance of the Spheres. — House- 
keeping, Food, Sleeping, Clothing, Etc. 

PAPER NINETEENTH. 

How Spirits are glad to go from the First to the Second 
and Third Spheres. — Some People so good on Earth that 
at Death they go directly to the Third Sphere. — Home 
Teaching for Children. — Old Scars of Past Sins fading 
out Here. — Public Meetings for Discussion. — The Original 
Inventor and his Electrical Machine to enable Mediums 
to give Materializations in the Light without a Cabinet. 
— How Pictures of Spirits will yet appear on Canvas be- ! 

FORE THE SITTER. 

PAPER TWENTY-FOURTH. 

THE FIFTH SPHERE. 

The Buddhist Heaven. — Pictures of the White Elephant. — vi 
The English Language Extending among the Spheres. — 
The Bangkok Sorcerer. — Spirits from Cambodia. — How they I 
are held back by Devotion to their Ideal Gods. — Colossal 
Statues with Hieroglyphics. — Mr. Bowles Visits Achsa W. 
Spr ague's Home in the Fifth Sphere, and Pays another 
Visit to Professor Faraday. — And a Little Child shall 
Lead them. — Robert Dale Owen Graduates a Class of 
Twelve Teachers to go to the First Sphere. — How Spirits 
from the Seventh Sphere Visit Mr. Bowles, and Encourage 
him in his Work. 

Mr. Bowles Interviews a Number of Noted Clergymen, etc. | 

REV. WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY, (UNITARIAN), Late of Spring- 
field, Mass., Mr. Bowies' Former Pastor; DR. WILLIAM ELLERY 
CHANNING, The Founder of the Unitarian Church in America; 
JONATHAN EDWARDS, The Great Orthodox Theologian of New 
England; JOSEPH SMITH, The Founder of Mormonism ; DR. 
GEORGE B. IDE, Late Baptist Clergyman of Sprinq field, Mass.; 
HOSEA BALLOU, An Eminent Universalis!; JOHN WESLEY, 
The Founder of Methodism; REV. MICHAEL O'CONNOR, a Cath- 
olic Priest ; DR. JOHN TODD, Late Minuter of the First Congreqa- 
tional Church of Pittsfield, Mass.; BISHOP WILLIAM HEATH- 
COTE DE LANCEY AND REV. E. W. HAGER, Late of the Dio- 
cese of Western New York. Episcopalians; REV. WILLIAM MILLER, 
The Founder of Second Adventism. 



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PAPER EIGHTH. 
How Our Daily Life Affects Our Spirits.— The Terrible Fate 
of the Mother and Father who consent to the Killing 
of their Unborn Babes, and the Worse Fate of the Abor- 
tionist who kills them.— A Springfield Abortionist De- 
scribed. 
I have touched upon the contrasts between good and bad people in 
professional and business life, and would willingly carry these contrasts 
into the humblest occupations of men, but I think you see my purpose, 
which is to show you that nature's laws have placed you as a resident 
of earth for a purpose. Those who have passed to spirit life see the 
great waste involved by a lack of proper education. Therefore it is 
our duty to help educate the earth people, and teach them the acts of 
life do live after death, that nothing is trivial, that every hour means 
something, either for your eternal happiness, or something to retard 
that happiness ; and when a proper view of this fact is taken, it will 
show you that all time is worse than wasted that does not tend to 
purify, physically and spiritually. As weeds in your garden, in a short 
time, will far out-number its fruits, so you then, with the garden of the 
soul to care for, must see how much more rapid is the growth of evil 
than the growth of good. 

I would have spiritualism enter into every thing, guiding the child 
at his play, the student in his work, and the statesman in his power, 
showing that all immortal souls are precious and capable of wondrous 
growth for good, or evil. While christians say of spiritualism, begone, 
they know not what a power they are attempting to cast aside. 
Neither do they know the help that would come to them by accepting 
the only reai proof of immortality that life gives, save the records of 
sacred histories. But it is as idle for me to strive to open their hearts 
by little efforts of mine, as for a boy to expect to overthrow a mighty 
edifice by hurling pebbles at it. They must learn to let in the light as 
they have heretofore learned to discard the theory of infant damna- 
tion, or the doctrine of brimstone as an ingredient in orthodox hell 
fire. 

After writing the other day of the experience of two physicians, on 
entrance to spirit life, my mind was most forcibly called back to it by 
witnessing a scene, where two motherly hearts were trying to direct 
the steps of one. who even in spirit life was a maniac. " If you take 



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me there and leave me alone, they will be running in and telling- me 
over and over again that I murdered them," and screams rent the air 
after this poor unfortunate was persuaded to avail herself of one of 
the hospitals for siek souls. I listened to her story from one who was 
acquainted with her in earth life. She said, " [No fairer girl ever lived 
than this poor sick soul at the age of sixteen. Surrounded by love, 
with all the advantages that wealth could give, she was the petted child 
of fashion. But the influences at her home were not ennobling. To 
look well, to dress well, to dance well, and to captivate the opposite sex, 
was the sum total of her existence. Yet even with these traits, there 
was much that was lovely in her nature, and had her mother seen the 
necessity of instilling pure thoughts and principles into her mind, she 
might have been saved. 

American independence ought to place its children on too high an 
elevation, to have them fall down and worship foreign nobility. But 
such is not the case. To be honored by the notice of one of the class 
from whom our fathers fought to free themselves, appears to som 
people to be of great importance. The title of nobleman is thought t 
be of more value than the possession of a good character. Instead of 
shielding her daughter from such an acquaintance, this mother en- 
couraged it, and at the age of eighteen, her daughter's virtue had been 
laid on the shrine of a false nobility. For this man was neither titled 
nor wealthy, and after borrowing all the money he could of the girl's 
father, while " waiting for funds," he disappeared. The downcast face 
of the daughter soon told its story, and the family physician was called 
in, and under strict promise of secrecy, a little life was sent on its mis- 
sion to eternity. The daughter recovered ; no one, save those interested, 
knew of this secret sin. Her heart soon healed of the old wound, and 
within a year she gave her hand in marriage to one in the same fash- 
ionable set as herself. She was young and gay, and could not give her 
time to motherhood, and so one after another, the mother sacrificed her 
unborn babes. 

At last surfeited with fashionable life, she made up her mind it 
would be really nice to have a child to brighten up the house, and 
determined to allow nature to take its course. But nature always 
avenges her own wrongs. With all the care that could be used, she 
could not go beyond the month in which she had been accustomed to 
send her children to spirit life. This woman, in some degree, found 
out her mistake while in earth life, for when her lonely heart cried out 



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for companionship, the answer to herself was, " I do not deserve the 
blessing of children, I have given the best of my life to fashion. I 
have outraged my better nature, and now I am trying to give this poor 
remnant of a wasted life to bring forth that which all these years I 
have hindered." So intense was her thought on this subject in the 
weary days of sickness, that -her brain became diseased, and she left 
earth and entered spirit life a maniac. The subtle chord ever existing 
between mother and child, tells her constantly which are her children, 
and their coldness and avoidance of her, is indeed hell to her. She 
moans for her lost girlhood, prays that the blight may not always be 
upon her children, but as yet no comforting interchange between 
mother and children has taken place. The children, so dwarfed to 
what they might have been, require the wisest care from the best of 
teachers. Sullen and suspicious in their natures, they are indeed a fit- 
ting tribute to lay on fashion's altar." 

" How long before a better state of things will come," I ask ? " So 
long," said she, " that children will be born in earth life, grow old, and 
come over here and find these poor waifs but little farther progressed 
than now. Though everything will be done for all parties that is pos- 
sible, yet it takes a long time for the muddy fountain of an immortal 
soul to become pure." 

I pondered long, whether this was a fitting subject to put before you 
there, or whether it would be rightly understood, but at last made up 
my mind that whether understood or not, I would do my duty; and if 
I can by this paper, stay the hand of one abortionist, (and I have in 
my mind one in your city whose hands are red with the blood from 
slaughtered innocents,) or cause one woman to stop in her career of 
wickedness, I would willingly face all possible objections, by saying 
I have only done my duty. Women who read this, search your past 
and see what will face you in eternity, and if you do not feel like tak- 
ing all the responsibilities of married life, do not enter that relation ; 
for as sure as continued existence is a fact, your sin shall find you out. 
Neither does the mother who allows these wrongs and becomes a part- 
ner to them, suffer alone. The husband, engrossed in business and 
gayety, may not stop to think there, but will be made to think here. 
The reproach to him is quite as great, for though his hand has not 
done the deed, he has paid the abortionist to do it, and therefore, be- 
comes a party to the crime of murdering his own children. His man- 
hood is debased, his self-respect gone. It is a severe punishment to go 



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for a long period through spirit life, with head bowed down, hardly 
daring to lift it because he expects reproachful looks. We need no 
gossiping women to tell tales here, for if we stop to read, each soul has 
more or less of a history stamped in indelible letters on his face, and 
spirit life shows us to each other as we are. But if the mother and 
father suffer in this way, words will fail to picture the sufferings of a 
person who has builded costly mansions, purchased fine horses, and 
every day been envied by his apparently less fortunate brethren. As I 
before remarked, my mind turns to one in your city, who, though it may 
not be generally known, owes most of his monetary success to the 
taking of human life. He does not now consider it a sin, and as he 
thinks, will give wise ideas as to when there is life in the foetus, and 
smiles pityingly on ignorance that thinks abortion may be wrong at 
any period. He is enjoying what wealth has come to him at the cost* ! 
of life. He is respected, and now calls a class of patients from among 
the wealthy ; therefore, is willing to drop the lower classes on whom he 
first tried his experiments. Bat if I could to-day draw a pen picture I 
of him as he is, then another of what he will be in spirit life, it w r ould 
make the stoutest heart quail. For in spirit life there can be no 
wealth, save that which comes from an honest life. When once the ' 
man is stripped of all adornings, he will stand out as he is, wicked, blood* yi 
stained ; one more wicked than the traditional Herod, because then - 
mothers wept. But in murders of this kind the mother is a party, and 
money, not power is wanted. Think of children fleeing as from a pes- 
tilence at his approach, for here children are not told untruths, and 
turned off with careless answers. They are told the truth and know 
their friends will not lead them wrong. I can see nought but dark- 
ness for a long time for such a life. I would help many if I could, but 
law is immutable, and must be obeyed. Men and women w ho have 
made this dangerous and unlawful practice a part of your life, I am 
writing to you, and I ask you to study carefully this chapter. Disbe- 
lieve it if you will, say all you can against it, but remember you will 
wake up in eternity to find it a dread reality.* i 

SAMUEL BOWLES. 
September 29, 1881. 



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Contents of the book. Samuel Bowles' entrance upon spirit life 
He advises woman to educate herself and become a voter. He would 
purify politics. He finds he had a wrong idea of heaven. His growth de- 
pends oi? doing good to mortals and undeveloped spirits. How spirits 
rest. The plan of spirit return through mediums the only one founded 
in wisdom. Heaven has no seasons, no night. Flowers bloom constant- 
ly. Household duties performed without manual labor. Many spirits 
subsist on the spiritual part of our cooking. The anxious mother and 
her son. How a drunken spirit obsessed him. The crime of " legalized 
murder. " (Hanging) The crime of " unlegalized murder. "(, Infanticide) 

Its effects upon the spirits of children sent to spirit life by abortion . 
How the doctors who produce itare to be damned. " Life's bills of sale." 
Marying for money without love. The effects of war and sudden death 
by accident on entering spirit life. Heaven is work. The clothing of 
spirits. Spirits are interested in our political elections. Churches in 
spirit life. Places of amusement. Education of children. The relig- 
ions of earth Some of their errors. How even church people are disap_ 
pointed. Mr. Bowles protests against a theology which says " you must 
not reason." Monomaniacs " Hunting for Jesus." Death-bed repent- 
ance of no avail. What good spirits really teach of religion. The law 
of spirit control. Why errors sometimes occur. Mr. Bowles' spirit 
home. Spirit life is constant progress. How inventors and artists are 
employed. What houses are made of. The beauty of a natural Heaven. 
The Spiritual Congress. How intempe ance is to be overcome. How to 
help our loved ones die. How to develop mediums. There should be a 
medium in every family. 

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